ok i know it is religious sacrilege and total blasphemy to talk about using windows xp on neowin and most who talk this way are nailed and burnetalive on the neowin cross. but i'm curious if anyone was in two mind between windows 7 and windows xp and on the release of windows 8 have finally decided whether to be on xp or 7?

i've found going back to xp better since there were some sleep problems, graphics issues and slow network performance some bsods.. which resolve easily with xp. win7 requires some tweaks.

win8 had the same issues as win7 except it didnt allow system wide disabling of cleartype and additional ads and a half baked metro ui.

so question is when going back from win 8 whath did you prefer 7 or xp?

ok i know it is religious sacrilege and total blasphemy to talk about using windows xp on neowin and most who talk this way are nailed and burnetalive on the neowin cross. but i'm curious if anyone was in two mind between windows 7 and windows xp and on the release of windows 8 have finally decided whether to be on xp or 7?

i've found going back to xp better since there were some sleep problems, graphics issues and slow network performance some bsods.. which resolve easily with xp. win7 requires some tweaks.

win8 had the same issues as win7 except it didnt allow system wide disabling of cleartype and additional ads and a half baked metro ui.

so question is when going back from win 8 whath did you prefer 7 or xp?

What tweaks was needed in windows 7 windows 7 works great out of the box and is far better then XP ever could be and as for windows 8 it is faster yet so i dont see what issue your having and why you want to go back to windows XP since well umm it is no longer really supported and is over 10 years old about now so yea

What tweaks was needed in windows 7 windows 7 works great out of the box and is far better then XP ever could be and as for windows 8 it is faster yet so i dont see what issue your having and why you want to go back to windows XP since well umm it is no longer really supported and is over 10 years old about now so yea

That's pretty generic hardware. From what you describe it sounds more like you are having some sort of hardware issue not caught by XP (and therefore a hidden problem waiting to jump you when you least expect it).

I'd have a good look at the hardware, clean off and re-apply thermal past on the CPU and check RAM and GFX card for errors. I have found over the years these are the usual suspects for the exact symptoms you are describing and doubt very much it has anything to do with which OS your are running.

Although Windows XP was an awesome operating system, and I absolutely loved it, I don't see why you'd choose it or even consider it, over Windows 7.
Also, I wouldn't class going from Windows 8 to Windows 7 as "downgrading", IMO it'd be upgrading.
I know if I wasn't using something brand new already and needed to go out and buy a new computer, and I had to buy one with Windows 8 on it, I'd be reformatting and installing Windows 7 for sure.

I known how you feel, XP is indeed good enough, if wasn't for the lack of a decent 64 bit version I would still be using it today.
So I will recommend what I'm using right now, Windows 7 x64 bits, it has the 'XP feel' somehow I think it will be the new XP in this decade.